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MiniDLNA on Samsung C650

Hello,
I've tested a lot of DLNA servers for windows, linux and mac. Some worked, some didn't… but the ones that worked, with the exception of Samsung's PC Share Manager, none of theme were able to play MKV HD files on my TV. With some servers (including MiniDLNA) i get "Not Supported File Format" error message, with others i am just dumped back to file listing without any message. MiniDLNA (and some others) were able to stream AVI and MPEG files on my TV without any problem… but i would like to play MKV files. Anyone can tell me why is this happening? If i use Samsung PC Share Manager everything works… but with other DLNA servers don't work…

Yes, 1.0.16.3 on CentOS. If i plug an USB drive containing MKV files it works very well, also if i use PC Share Manager it works, but i am using a Mac and i rater run linux on VirtualBox than any version of windows :P
BTW, would be great to make a MiniDNLA build for Mac.

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2010-06-22

BUMP, Sumsung LE46C750 here. Everything works except mkv.
minidlna-cvs from yesterday on arch linux rolling release.
Could it be that one hast to set specific mime types on the machine that hosts the server or is this out of question ? I would like to know what's wrong. Mkv are very important nowadays.

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2010-06-22

You Sir zambrano are my personal hero ! Avatar 720p on a mkv now rocking my eyes =)
Faster response then in a chat, aweseom dude.
I at first only changed .c file in one folder but there are two, and i picked the first where i found it -build. Never worked with cvs.
So the first tip of you worked "SEC_HHP_TV" for LE46C750. Little patch will make many people happy.
Awesome software guys!

I'm kind of a Linux newbie and I've got no clue how to build the modified sources (according to note #13 from zambrano).
I've find the build script from which the miniDLNA I've got came from but so far I failed to run it…

Is there any chance some one could compile a modified version a the latest miniDLNA for my NAS ? Or at least point me to simple 'how to' to buid such thing.

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Anonymous
2010-08-25

Dear all,

I've manage to build a version for my NAS using the user gent from my tv : SEC_HHP_TV salon/1.0
I've even used the patch to display thumbnails from videos :)
But so far I've failed to display subtitles…

In debug mode I can see them but the TV fails to display them…
The subtitle are ok as I'm displaying them correctly with Samsung PC Share Manger v4.2

Using the current version (v1.0.18) under Debian/testing I can see the subtitles (.MKV and .AVI movies with external .SRT subtitle), but the TV won't show me the subtitle submenu. So I checked with the WiseLink Windows DLNA server and it does.

I can make a wireshark capture of this (around 20MB). Would this be of any help? Anything different I can do?